Daily Archives: August 23, 2018

We are nearing the end of our year-long Torah reading cycle. We started in Genesis last October. And over the last ten months we have worked our way through Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and now we only have about 12 chapters left in Deuteronomy. This week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 21:10 to 25:19. The entire section…

By Rivkah Lambert Adler, Breaking Israel News— Rabbi Tuly Weisz, director of Israel365 and the publisher of The Israel Bible and Breaking Israel News believes that the rejection of replacement theology by contemporary Christians is a “prerequisite for all of the other stages of geula (redemption).” He told Breaking Israel News, “As a Jewish rabbi, I’m…

BY Jacskson Richman, JNS— A new poll released this week highlights the growing partisan gap on Israel in the United States. Compared to 64 percent of Republicans, just 17 percent of Democrats support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. At the same time, Netanyahu received a 30 percent…

By South African Jewish Report— A descendant of Shaka kaSenzangakhona — the legendary 19th-century Southern African king more commonly known as Shaka Zulu — has returned from a visit to Israel with a pledge to mobilize solidarity with the Jewish state among his fellow South Africans. “I landed in Israel during trying times whereby the…

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— That US President Donald Trump devoted a portion of his Charleston, West Virginia rally on Tuesday to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process suggests that he intends to very soon unveil his Mideast peace plan, dubbed by Trump himself as the “deal of the century.” During the remarks, Trump reiterated that Israelis…

BY Herb Keinon, Michael Wilner, JPOST— US President Donald Trump’s comments in West Virginia on Tuesday that Israel would have to pay a high price in negotiations with the Palestinians for the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem does not represent a change of American policy, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said Wednesday.…